Container for rolls of perforated labels.



No. 841,862. PATENTED JAN. 22, 1907. 0. GRUNDIG.

CONTAINER FOR ROLLS OF PERFORATED LABELS. APTLIGATION FILED 0011.27.1903.

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CARL GRUNDIG, OF SORAU, GERMANY. CONTAINER FOR ROLLS OF PERFORATED LABELS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 22, 1907.

Application filed October 27, 1903. Serial No. 178,704.

T0 at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CARL GRUNDIG, a subject of the German Emperor, and a resident of Sorau, Germany, have invented certain. new and useful Improvements in Containers for Rolls of Perforated Labels, of which the following is a specification. I

Containers for rolls of perforated labels are already known in which the free end of the roll is conducted through the holder in such manner that the foremost label contained is Visible from without and on being drawn forward and torn off is replaced by the succeeding one. Such holders, however, are defective, inasmuch as the entire strip can be drawn through. the holder. without meeting with any obstruct-ion, as there is no stop presented to the successive labels. Thus in abstracting a label it frequently happens that the strip is drawn too far, so that the next label projects to a certain extent from the holder and parts of two different labels are visible within the holder.

The purpose of my invention is to overcome these defects by providing a holder through which the strip is drawn in such manner that the moment the front label leaves the holder an impediment is suddenly presented to the further unrolling of the strip. Such impediment is made known by the jerk experienced, which indicates that the succeeding label occupies the correct position in the holderthat is to say, that the first label must be torn ofl. The impediment oflered, moreover, is such as to afford suflicient resistance to enable the label to be readily torn off by hand from the remainder of be pressed against an edge to facilitate tearing, although the edge of the holder located above the line of tearing may be employed for the purpose, if desired.

To attain the desired object, my invention consists of a roll-container comprising a container or casing for the roll proper, a holder or guide of the length of each label and exerting a tension or friction on the label to give a resistance and insure only one label being exposed and removed at a time.

The invention further consists of a rollcontainer embodying novel features of construction and combination of parts, substantially as disclosed herein.

My invention is shown in the drawings, in whichthe strip without its having to I inner casing or .container, both having an l Figure 1 is an elevation, and Fig. 2 a horizontal section, of the apparatus. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section of a modification of the apparatus in which the strip passes over a pin prior to entering the holder. Figs. 4 and 5 are like views of other modifications of the apparatus to be hereinafter referred to.

The outer casing is of the same form as the open end and turned corners, as at d.

The bottom I) of the container projects slightly beyond the open end and is turned up at rightangles, forming a front wall I) to receive the label-holder d. This holder 62 is made of a single piece of sheet metal the size of a single label between the perforations when in use and on the container. In forming the holder (1 the ends I), which are each nearly half the length of a label, are bent back to a position parallel with the main body of the holder. This forms an openended space, whereb T the holder may be slipped on the wall I) and be held thereon, the holder being reversible owing to this open-ended space. The top and bottom edges of the plate of which the holder is formed are also bent back to the positions shown at d, such bent edges being quite narrow, so as not to interfere with the observation of the label in the holder, either with or without a transparent sheet- (1 placed therein.

As Fig. 2 shows, the strip a passes over the edge e, where it is introduced into the holder, so that the back of the strip is seen in the transparent holder. In this construction of the apparatus, therefore, the strip of labels must be rolled up printed side inward, so that at the front of the apparatus the slip or label can be seen, as shown in Fig. 1. In use, therefore, both edges e and f are employed, but each for a different purpose. The edge e serves, on the strip being pulled out, to indiate the moment when the first label is in the correct positionthat is to say, it serves as guide-while the edge f constitutes a knifeedge. The length of the label-holder, as already remarked, is the length of a single label, so that in the same moment in which the first line of perforationsthat is, the line of separation-lies below the edge f the next line of perforations turns the edge e, whereby the resistance of the roll for the moment greatly decreases. Since, however, in the next momentthat is, on the advance of the next following (the third) label-the former resistance is again established, the unwinding will be interrupted by a jerk, whereby indication is given to the person manipulating the apparatus to tear off the first label. The latter operation can most readily be done by turning the label drawn out, Fig. 2, dotted line, over the edge f and using the latter as knife. A slight jerk with the hand is suffi cient to sever the label. Independently of the edge f, however, the impediment caused by the edge e is in itself sufficient to afford the amount of resistance necessary for severance of the label which has been drawn out. Thus it is not absolutely necessaryto use the edge f for the latter purpose.

If it is desired to employ rolls having the print outward, a member must be interposed between the first edge e and the roll a, round which the strip may bend. Figs. 3, 4, and 5 illustrate such arrangements. In Fig. 3 a pin 9 is employed between the roll a. and edge e, and the strip passes over the pin. In Fig. 4 the holder is furnished with an edge d for the purpose in view, and in Fig. 5 the receptacle 1) presents an edge 71, answering the same purpose.

It is evident that the roll of labels is mounted in the casing or container upon the pin or shaft and passes through the holder or guide which offers the proper friction or resistance to insure only one label being eX- posed and torn from the strip. The guide being at an angle of the line of travel of the strip insures the proper frictional resistance.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A container for strips of perforated labels comprising a receptacle having an open t end, and having its bottom extended below said open end and bent up to form a wall,

and a removable holder for labels of the length of a single label, made of a plate of l metal having its ends bent back parallel to the main body thus forming a space to receive the wall, the bottom and top edges of the holder-plate being respectively bent back forming an open-ended receptacle through which to draw the labels, substantially as described.

2. A container for strips of perforated labels comprising a receptacle for a roll of labels, a friction-pin erected therein around which the label-strips may be drawn, and a label-holder securable upon a wall thereof, said holder being of the length of a single label between the lines of perforations, and formed with a friction-surface at one end over which the label being withdrawn is bent, and at its opposite end with a tearing edge, an open-ended channel being provided in the holder for the passage of the label, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as ence of two subscribing witnesses.

CARL GRUNDIG.

\ my invention I have signed my name in pres- Witnesses:

OSCAR PITTINE. l J. O. MURPHY. 

